On May 7, I was in Calgary for the joint book launch of the first two titles of the Shadowpaw Press Spring/Summer list, The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer and The Traitor’s Son by the …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, turned to Crowdfundr to help ensure …
This year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, succeeded, reaching …
Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
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Acronym of the day
Nanoscale polymer beads, first developed as sensors to explore and monitor cellular processes, now hold promise for diagnosing and treating cancer. Excellent news, bravo, etc.
But that’s not the main reason I’m blogging about it. I was just taken with the acronym they come up with for these little beads: PEBBLEs. Catchy, eh? It stands for Photonic Explorers for Biomedical use with Biologically Localized Embedding.
How many man-hours of research time do you think went into coming up with that?
Or perhaps Acronym Generation is now a university course–wouldn’t surprise me. It seems to be a growth industry…
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